The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-07

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materials and the general principle that the
necessaries of life rather than luxuries
should be affected, the President does not
undertake to indicate to Congress specific
methods upon which tariff reduction should
in his opinion proceed. The message is not
too long for busy men to read, and it is the
busy men of the United States that have
the greatest interest in seeing themselves
just what President Cleveland says in this,
the most remarkable and, in some respects,
the most important document that he has
produced since his political career
began"
The Herald closes its article as follows:
The message will not please the extremists
of either side, free traders or protectionists,
but it will, we believe please and satisfy
the people at large, and it puts upon both
parties in Congress the solemn duty to re-
leve the country from most serious
danger
The Tribune says: "For the first time in
the country's history the Presidents annual
message omits all reference to many grave
public interests respecting which good citi-
zens of all parties agree, and is exclusively
devoted to an issue between the parties
President Cleveland gives Congress no in
formation about the fishery question, the
pending negotiations with Great
Britain, or our relations with
ton regarding domestic affairs and
the workings of the government in its diff
ferent departments it refers the public to
the reports of the Cabinet officers. So ab-
sorbed is the President in impressing upon
Congress particular and distinctively
partisan policy, in regard to the mode of re-
ducing the revenue, that he finds no space
for any account of the condition of the
public service, or for any reference to other
grave questions not of a partisan character
which call for Congressional action. The
nearest approach to this strange performance
in the annual messages of previous Presidents
was when President Buchanan devoted
most of his message to a defense of his
policy in Kansas. Its precedent can be
hardly considered attractive in the light of
its results.
"But it is well for the country that the
issue so long and uncandidly evaded has at
last been sharply made. Credit is due to
the President for making the issue boldly
and distinctly, so that no man
can hereafter claim, with a show of reason
that the theories and aims of the ultra-op-
ponents of protection have not in him a
Jealous advocate. On the issue thus pre-
sented the people cannot decide too soon,
and upon their decision will largely depend
their future prosperity"
LONDON, Dec Z, 5 A. M-The Morning
Post, commenting on President Cleveland's
message, says: THE message will produce
profound sensation in Europe as well as in
America, and will strengthen the free
traders case throughout the world"
The Daily NetcS says: "Seldom has an
American President had a more important
or impressive lesson to teach. The fact is
that, although President Cleveland makes
N Of butt bic To
policy of protection has been reduced to
practical and theoretical absurdity. The
stone now set rolling will not stop until the
idol of protection is broken in pieces"
The Chronicle says: "It is many years
since such an important and suggestive
message has been sent to Congress. If the
policy of President Cleveland is adopted the
effect on the trade of the world cannot fail
! to be immense
The Telegraph, referring to President
Clevelands argument condemning the
wool tariff, asks: ''1s he sure that
it is to the wool tariff alone
that the argument applies? Is he certain
that there are not large numbers-not per-
haps in the farming, but in the wage-earning
classes-in America who lose more by the
enhanced prices of the necessaries of life
than they gain from an increase in wages
by the protection of industries in which
they are employed? This is question
which free traders will ask, and which also
American statesmen may hear addressed to
them by their countrymen in q different
tone"
The Standard says: president Cleve-
lands message is based on financial princi-
pies, the soundness of which it is impossible
to successfully dispute. 1t marks revolu-
tionary starting point in the fiscal contro-
versies of the United States Whether it
will bring about Immediately a new de-
parture in their fiscal policy depends upon
its reception by Congress, which may give
a spirited protest to the President"
The Times says: "No message on record
is more remarkable for bold, outspoken dis
closures of a novel policy hitherto opposed
or ignored by both political parties. 1t is
still more remarkable that Mr.. Cleveland
has the courage to confront the serried
phalanx of protectionists on the eve of a
contest for the Presidency.
$50 far as England is concerned it is ques-
tionable, whatever the impulse resulting
from the removal of the burdens on Ameri-
can industry, whether America will not
confront us in formidable rivalry in both
home and foreign markets. We have con-
fidence, however, in the laws by which,
when trade is free, every nation discovers
its fittest work and turns its advantages to
the best account"